Feedback: How can we make the men in green more, er, green?

Eco-warriors

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has once again dismissed climate change, but his military advisers have long taken a more pragmatic view. At the Pentagon, strategists are planning for conflicts ignited by our warming world. Yet prevention is better than cure, thinks Feedback, and we wonder if the armed forces are playing their part in the greatest battle of all: mitigating climate change. We brainstormed some ways the men and women in olive drab might be more green.

The armoured divisions could deliver a pre-emptive strike against climate change by converting those gas-guzzling tanks to eco-friendly hybrid models. …